A haunted house. A cold case. A new cop in town.Did Edna Crayborne really see a woman getting strangled in the ground floor window of the old Bailey house?Rosie Ryan isn't sure. As a journalist with the Cape Carson Gazette, Rosie's always on the lookout for a big news story. And the Bailey house does have a reputation as the most haunted house in town. After all, it's the place where the infamous Bailey killings happened all those years ago.Of course, that's old histor...

Cuwohf agency linguist Ulvisia Lasker sets out on an archaeological expedition to the Yeryong'oq moon in search of a cosmic lighthouse technology built by missing aliens. On the purple moon many races have come to find the same secret.Ulvisia and technician Dokunan Yplik will have to face intelligent machines, aliens. In addition, the extinct species and the lighthouse builders have placed many traps that they will have to face if they are to succeed in unraveling the mystery....

Sugar and spice, and everything nice-that may be what girls are made of, but Amu Hinamori is so much cooler, especially now that she's left behind her days at Seiyo Elementary and became a middle schooler! After transferring to Arcana Academy on a special assignment, her role as the Joker Guardian is to intervene in a crisis that is causing students to lose hope and confidence in themselves. But she has another, more important secret mission: to solve the mystery of the all-powerful, myste...

Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and super cool Amu has it all: But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu's life is going to take more than wishes and dreamsit's going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angellike being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, ...

Jeremy "Pitt" Pittman is a metaphysical philosopher, symbolic systems theorist, and practitioner of contemporary Hermetic alchemy. With a background spanning esotericism, psycho-spiritual development, and civilizational design, their work integrates ancient initiatory wisdom with modern systems thinking. Known for their articulate synthesis of the mystical and the empirical, Pitt distills the perennial principles of transformation into accessible, actionable frameworks for individuals and ...

This new, tenth edition of Bradt’s USA by Rail guidebook remains the pre-eminent source of information for exploring North America via its ruggedly charming, unabashedly romantic, reassuringly eco-friendly and pleasingly inexpensive train network. The grandeur of North America’s scenery – from its never-ending prairies, the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert and the saw-toothed peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the pounding surf of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans – is one of its greatest attr...

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‘Out of field, out of fen, out of forest we roseputting fear behind us. Foe fled before us:hard-handed death-dealers, wolf-howling warriors,fierce in fealty; our swords glittered in the sunlight . . . .’Edward the Confessor is dead, England is at peace and Hereward, son of Eorl Leofric, returns from exile to his ancestral lands. But peace is short-lived and when Norman invaders murder his foster-brother,...

When ten-year-old Ellie is taken from her parents' farm, the consequences endanger a society unknown to the modern world. Her abductor belongs to a relict population of indigenous Tasmanians who live deep in the South West Wilderness as they and their ancestors have done for millennia, avoiding all contact with the modern world, and while Ellie learns to assimilate into his culture, her presence threatens to destroy him and all his people.

When he returns home after fighting in the English Civil War, Fenlander Tom Swainson is full of hope for a New Age of equality where the rights of commoners will be protected, as promised by his old commander, Oliver Cromwell. But although the hamlet where he lives was untouched by the fighting, he finds that much has changed during his absence. His wife is with child by his friend, Matthew Hobday, and his livelihood is threatened by the 'Venturers', who wish to enclose and drain the Fens....

Amu is a girl on a secret mission at Arcana Academy. During her pursuit of the X Eggs, the Humpty Lock changes shape, and Amu's Character Transformation becomes more powerful. While new mysteries continue to emerge, the phantom thief Mirage Lynx steals one of the Arcana Jewels from Heart Dorm! Amu faces a challenge, but she is not alone-help is on the way from familiar friends…

When the narrator's abusive father sells her to a mysterious stranger, a new exciting world opens. Her new master, Reynauld Sely, is a man of many talents: alchemist, historian, possessor of arcane secrets, and member of a Guild whose quest is the pursuit of Truth. He is eager to share his knowledge and she is willing to learn. Yet this is a time in which the boundaries between science and magic are poorly defined and both may be interpreted as witchcraft . . .Set in the Fens durin...